Options… Thailand for 2.5 years… Now what?

I love options. I was going over my options as this term as ended and I move tomorrow from Surat Thani and I still don't know TO where…

I like to have things up in the air a bit. I've thought a LOT about where to go, but I want to choose the BEST POSSIBLE option for this point in time.

Here are some options that I jotted down…

BKK Teacher

Make a lot of cash

Spend a lot of cash

Meet successful Thailand site owners

Shopping can't be beat

Farang food

No motorbike rides, no car

Public transportation everywhere

Weekend trips out of city

G/f can work and make decent bank

Drunk in Patong (TH)

A slovenly fool

SangSom Rum nightly

Sit at Soi Bangla haunts

Decent farang food selection

Teach a bit or other job

Close to Phi Phi

Cambodia

Angkor and other wats

Lay low

Take relaxation to a new level

Get addicted to something

Join group that beats up pedophiles

Teach if nothing else to make money at

Malaysia

Totally new experience

Surround self with Muslims

Make bank teaching

Friends visit (have friends there)

Wave pool in Kuala Lumpur

Chiang Rai or Loei, TH

Teach

Meditate again

Mountain biking, hiking, trail running

Isolated, no visitors

Korea

Soju nights forgetting what happened (been there once already)

Stay 1 year, make big BANK

Save for relaxing a year in Laos or LOS

Repeat

Khon Kaen,or Udonthani, TH

Teach university level

Reclusive

Bars on weekends

Mr Tongs

Nearby hiking, biking

Blog like an idiot, few times/day

Monk at Wat Pah Nanachat or Suan Mokkh (TH)

See if process visits again

Worry free

1 or 2 meals per day

Bliss

Laos

Relax for 6 months exploring

Blog, blog, blog

Get followed a lot

Back to USA

Either jump back into e-commerce world

or

Go to wat in California, take monk vows

Back to Hawaii

North and NE shores

Maui or Oahu

Surf, bodyboard, bodysurf

Run, bike, hike

Relive the good years

Beg for food… lol.

Indonesia

Dodge terrorist attacks

Good food

Teach

Blog

SURF!

Philippines

nah

Japan

Make bank

Spend bigger BANK

Stock photography

Teaching

e-learning p/t job w/westgate

Vietnam

Go see it first

Argue a lot about prices

Teach

Learn vietnamese so I can speak with son

Son visits yearly with wacky mom.

Surf? There's GOTTA be something

China

nah

Mukdahan, TH

Teach

See Laos and Vietnam often

Blog

Write book

Southern Thailand Provinces

Try to help

Give them some solutions to work with

Teach English

Become Muslim extremist, write book about conversion

LOL

Redmond, Washington

Annoy the hell out of Microsoft until they fix their asinine software (all of it)

Beg for food…

Drink good coffee

See good bands

Bangkok, Patpong district

See if any foreign or local Thai women are ready to pay for farang male azz yet

Make up some business cards

Self promote

Hmm, those are the things that come immediately to mind. The actuality could be much different from anything listed here.

Time will tell…

(oh, the slut photo was created by my M3 students (16 yrs) as a gift. They thought they were doing me a favor putting my head on David Beckham's body, but really, my body is better!)

Mai Pen Rai,

Vern

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